Harlem music artist Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie "Things to Come"

This musical piece composed by Dizzy embodies the effervescent, spastically entertaining night-life the Harlem Renaissance is famous for. Utilizing a repetitive tap titty tap on the symbol and high hat that flows quickly and in beat with every other note produced the Harlem Renaissance flow and life of its people is mimicked. As the song goes on new instruments cut in for their solos as does many artists in the Harlem Renaissance stepping in to showcase their abilities. The drums and bass resemble the other artists supporting who ever happens to be showing their solo. Then the culmination of the song includes all the instruments in equal parts showing that the renaissance is comprised of all black people equally just as the jazz song is comprised of all instruments. The dramatic ranges of notes hit in the piece are symbolic of the range of art the Harlem Renaissance had. The song gives the feeling of chasing someone around Harlem going form club to club and museum to museum taking in every piece produced as glorious and important. The purpose of Dizzy in this composition is clearly to embody to Harlem Renaissance’s appealing attractions and plunders of a group of intellectually exceptional people.

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